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If bra burning was to demonstrate liberation from men, because women still wear them, what are they liberated from today?

Asked by Hypocrisy_Central (26879points) May 27th, 2014

Excerpt from lakewoodcityschools.org/womensrights_1960/home/women-s-protests

In the 1960’s the phrase “Bra Burning” was well known. People say that very few women actually burned their bras, but many supported those actions. Women burned their bras because they felt that it proved a statement or made a stand for Women’s Rights. Another reason they burned their bras was because it was a symbol that showed independence of men at the time. The women that didn’t burn their bras often walked around wearing no bra at all. This was also meant to show independence of men. Many women thought that it meant freedom to be natural instead of pushed up. At the Miss America Protest there were trashcans that women called freedom trashcans. Women threw things such as bras, girdles, curlers, tweezers, high heels, etc. into them to be burned.

Today what are women supposed to be liberated from since apparently those women of the 60’s must have gotten it wrong, since so few adheres to those ideas today, or support the effort because they voluntarily wear bras and would never think of going without? If bras were a symbol of being subjugated to men then they must still, be if they ever were? Today the bra is still as solid a fixture as ever, if not even more so; women feel the need and desire to be ”pushed up”, as the passage say, than be natural.

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